BE BE RINE

n. Be*b-er’en, ria. Fr., bébirine, béberine, bébeerine. Ger., Beberin, Bebirin, Be beer in. It., be beer in a. An alkaloid, CyoH21NO;, discovered by Rodie (1834) in the bark of the bebeeru (Nectandra Rodiwi); a white, bitter alae soluble in alcohol and in ether; identical, according to Walz, with buxine, and, according to Flückiger, with pelosine and paricine. [B, 2, 81.]—B. chloride. See B. hydrochtoride.—B. chloroplatinate. See B. plat i no chloride—13. hydro chlorate, B. hydrochloride. Lat., bebeerinum muriaticum. Fr., chlorhydrate de bébeerine. Ger., salzsaures Be beer in. It., cloridrato di be beer in a. A compound of b.and hydrochloric acid; a bitter, uncrystallizable substance, yoy soluble in water. [B,2.J— B. muriate. See B.hydrochloride.—B. plat i no chloride. Fr., platino-chlorure (ou chloro-platinate) de bébeerine, An orange-colored amorphous ppreeintees e, Cy9Ha1 NOg.HCI.PiCl. [B, 2.]—B. sulphate. Lat., beberinæ sulphas [Br. Ph.], beberiæ sulphas (Br. Ph., 1867], beberinum sulfur i cum. … sulfate de bébeerine, Ger., schwefelsaures Beberin, Beberinsulfat. It., solfato di be beer in a. A compound of b. and sulphuric acid, obtained by the action of the latter on bebeeru bark. As thus prepared, it occurs as bitter, dark brown, translucent scales soluble in water and in alcohol, containing free eulpburig acid, sulphate of sepirine, and coloring matt When freed from these latter constituents, it is yellowish-whi Used chiefly as a tonic and antiperiodic in place of quinine. [B, 81.]